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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. Teachers afraid of this may steer an unnecessarily wide path around painful history that needs to be discussed.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

We are fighting over whether or not political parties that are in control of state government, in control of Congress, can control higher education,” Cantwell said. At UCF, the student government counts on staff members to run an annual diversity training. Still, Armato wonders, “Is this going to blow up on me?”

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Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

The Hechinger Report

There is a consumer protection strand of American history, and now it’s higher education’s turn,” said Daniel Greenstein, director of education and postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been pressing for better information to be made available to students and their families.

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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

The Hechinger Report

The anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma and New Mexico, to teach Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more accurately and fully. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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With the nation in turmoil, Ed Secretary King’s quest to diversify schools is the right pursuit

The Hechinger Report

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. Secretary of Education, is thankful for attending diverse schools and attributes those schools to his advancements.

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If black lives matter, so do historically black colleges and universities

The Hechinger Report

People who know American history, specifically black history, don’t ask if we need HBCUs. But Rising’s main contribution to history is how it properly situates the role that black colleges played in the civil rights movement. Grand Valley State University professor in 2013 in the academic e-journal Education Policy.

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What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some Scenarios

The Hechinger Report

Coupled with a steady state of 3 percent homeschooling, for the first time in American history, a majority of school-aged children are not enrolled in traditional public schools. More than three-quarters of American children and youth are enrolled in traditional public schools.